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<p>Unlikely. Residency for tuition purposes in MA - as in most states - is decided primarily by where your own parents live. And you can only establish residency in MA (as in many other states) with periods in which you are not enrolled as a full-time student. See [url=<a href=“http://www.umass.edu/dean_students/uploads/listWidget/28299/tuitionclassification_rules.pdf]here[/url”>http://www.umass.edu/dean_students/uploads/listWidget/28299/tuitionclassification_rules.pdf]here[/url</a>].</p>
<p>Pre-med is pre-med. Someone else could probably speak better to the competitiveness of pre-med classes (aka, is the atmosphere cutthroat vs. collaborative?) but in general, medical schools don’t really care where you went to undergrad. Ohio State students get the slight edge in selectivity - more of them were in the top tenth or top quarter of their graduating class than UMass-Amherst students, although both schools have relatively similar average SAT scores (Ohio State’s math scores are slightly higher). Still, the vast majority of UMass-Amherst’s students had a 3.5+ in high school, and the class rank thing could be because they have more students from the Northeast/New England, which is the home of lots of really competitive elite high schools.</p>